A doctor who removed the ovaries of two women without their consent is still practising as a consultant gynaecologist at an ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women under 40 who use estrogen to ease menopause symptoms after having their ovaries removed do not have an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a new study.

It's a decision no woman wants to have to make, but new research shows that young breast cancer patients with high-risk genes may be able to prevent their cancer from returning if they have their ...

NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Women with genetic mutations that increase their risk of ovarian cancer have fewer years than physicians thought to make the difficult choice of having their ovaries ...

New research has found that women who have had both ovaries surgically removed before the age of 50 and carry a variant of the apolipoprotein gene, the APOE4 allele, are at high risk of late-life ...

With a new imaging technique, UC San Francisco scientists discover an ecosystem that determines how eggs mature and ovaries ...

Removing both of a woman's ovaries before natural menopause may reduce the integrity of white matter in their brains, scientists have found. For most women this operation, known as surgical menopause, ...

Share on Pinterest Experts say the decision whether to remove ovaries during a hysterectomy should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Vladimir Vladimirov/Getty Images Researchers say the removal of ...

Women who have their ovaries removed before menopause, particularly before the age of 40, have reduced white matter integrity in multiple regions of the brain later in life, a new study suggests.

Menopause occurs when women stop menstruating and are no longer able to get pregnant naturally. With menopause, various changes take place in the body, leading to several symptoms like hot flashes, ...

To prevent more cases of ovarian cancer, a major research and advocacy group is suggesting an aggressive prevention strategy: remove a woman's fallopian tubes if she is undergoing pelvic surgery for ...